Undertaking — a lively business


Currently, niches being sold are limited to Taoist and Buddhist designs. The Christian ones willbe launched with the second phase, says Reeno.

It may be a morbid subject for many, but death is an inseparable part of life, and the funerary and crematorium services is one business with good growth prospects. VINCENT TAN talks to the Kong brothers of Nirvana Asia.

DESPITE its completion date being another year and a half away, the prime columbarium spaces for urns (or niches) at the new Nirvana Centre Kuala Lumpur are already being snapped up in preparation for the afterlife.

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